skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like it’s easier to measure for large scale back end systems. Where you can look at things like throughput, scalability, failure rates, latencies, uptime, etc. So to an extent developer productivity can be thought of as the derivative of improvement in those metrics.

For front end development, you need to look at user satisfaction measures. Where it’s a bit more difficult to quantify which contributions are most responsible.
That would be Norsholmen right before Stockholm, but there is a small town Norsholm between Linköping and Norrköping that the author put in the image in the article.

Here is a non-paywall version of the same event that says "4 mil" (40km): https://nyheter24.se/motor/1273809-tesla-forare-sov-pa-e4-me...
You're right that these studies measure the product, not the substance. But TFA is about vaping, and I am referring to that.

[edit] Seems that nicotine is not really harmless, even in gum or patches: double the risk of heart palpitations and chest pains, 1.67 the risk of nausea and vomiting, 1.5 times the risk of gastrointestinal complaints, and 1.4 times the risk of insomnia.

Of course, if you measure anything this closely with >100k participants in RCTs, it's bound to have a significant effect. But these odds ratios are not exactly small.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1617-9625-8-8
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I fail to see what was "brought back". This just looks like indeed ads on SO.
> Assume the human

Humans have rights. They get to do things that businesses, and machine learning models, or general automation, don't.

Just like you can sit in a library and tell people the contents of books when they ask, but if you go ahead and upload everything you get bullied into suicide by the US government[1]

> Consumers and small companies get away with small copyright violations all the time

Yeah, because people don't notice so they don't care. Everyone knows what these bigtech criminals are doing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
So trust the propaganda side, don't verify and publish such propagnda?

I mean... you can still not read RT, I don't know why you feel the need to forbid others from reading it? What if others want to ban something you wish to read? I mean...i'm glad you admit supporting censorship, but you can't complain then when some other country bans lgbt materials, harry potter, books on sexuality, books about satan, etc.
What would be the advantage of a button to cancel instead of turning the knob back to zero? It seems like that would add quite a bit of complexity to the mechanism to provide a UI that's just different rather than obviously better.
What's missing from the existing API documentation?

https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/api/base_model/
Yeah. Excel is the bees. Fine hating on all the rest.
It's definitely a double-standard that is especially prevalent in the US. In a gas station you can buy alcohol that will kill you, nicotine products that will kill you, processed food that will kill you. I don't understand why only 1 of those seems to ruffle feathers.
The sponsoring of Hamas by Qatar has happened with approval from Netanyahu. Until October 7th of course.
And the reason that Hamas headquarters are in Doha, is because the US government requested that in 2011.

See e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/middleeast/qatar-hamas-fu...

or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_support_for_Hamas
Who translated the Iliad and Odyssey into (English) hexameters?
Shot Of An A-10, F-35 and F-22 Billowing Vapor In Formation Is Absolutely Insane
We evolved to fit the environment of our gravity well like a glove. There's a lot that just doesn't work optimally without the envelope of gas exchange, temperature ranges, nutrient inputs, and standard gravity we have on earth.

This is why I find the idea of humans colonizing the galaxy ridiculous. It won't happen unless we change our bodies substantially. We're just animals. Animals fit to the conditions of earth. (But quite honestly, it'll likely be machine intelligences that inherit the stars instead of us with our biological shortcomings.)
I don't think that "putin has 3 days of supplies left" propaganda is just as bad as the kind of genocidal propaganda pumped out by the Russian media, no, sorry.

Not all propaganda is born equal. Antisemitic propaganda pumped out by the Nazis in WW2 was absolutely worse than "keep calm and carry on" propaganda pumped out by the Brits during WW2. Hope that helps.
In functional analysis, it is somewhat of a sport to attach indices to all four corners of a symbol. I remember overhearing a discussion between two big players in the field, and they obviously did not share the same starting point for reading the indices out loud. For sure, I didn't understand what they were talking about, but neither did they.
I am not so sure. SO I imagine is at a intersection to decide their future. SO is probably the least relevant it has ever been in its history, there is a potential crisis with LLM taking the role of what traditionally happened on SO. I imagine the core user on SO does not want an indeed experience, the whole joy with SO careers/jobs was that it was purely part of the SO ecosystem. I also cannot imagine a worse partner in this space from an IT/Developer experience. Perhaps this is a pivot to try and figure out the future of the company.

I don't remember the deal details but I cannot image SO is worth today what Prosus paid for it during the acquisition.
> but look at NATO, they are equally bad because they invaded Iraq." (NATO didn't invade Iraq, the US did with the help of UK, Poland, and Australia)

Where did you get the "are equally bad" part from?

> He clearly...

"Clearly", eh? Well, let's wait to see how you do with the question.
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This has come up before here but unfortunately I'm right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Performance
So we should lie that israel is losing hard, so good morale brings more and more people to fight for hamas?
> Excel

This is like the single greatest piece of software to ever exist, and I mean that with 100% sincerity. I am baffled that you would include Excel in this list.
> I would have to devote months to really understand it, I guess, and "cure" this "superficialitis" (tendency to think everything is 50 lines of code)

You wouldn’t have to spend months understanding it, but you also wouldn’t be able to glance at the code for 5 minutes and understand everything that needs to happen.

Anything that handles driver or system level operations and deals with audio will get complex quickly. What happens when the input device gets unplugged? The output device disconnects? User changes from speakers to AirPods?

How do you handle situations where the input and output sample rate are different? What about when something backs up and a buffer overflows? Or underflows? What mechanism do you use for handling user setting changes?

The list of situations you have to handle goes on and on. The core concept is simple, but there are so many things to do that the code base will naturally become bigger than the 50 lines of code you’re imagining.
In the US, “south asian” is fine. In the UK, there’s enough of each group where I think you should distinguish Indian versus Pakistani versus Bangladeshi. It’s not a group of people who want to be lumped together, same with Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese. They're also far less closely related to each other than say British people and French people.
The phrasing is pretty standard, the important part is the middle sentence. Often it includes irrevocable, transferable and sublicensable as well.

That being said, I hate "remains your property" part. It's just fluff that changes nothing, but distracts from the following sentence.
Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering
Note the end of the article acknowledges this, so this is clearly a deliberate part of the constructed example to make a particular point and not an oversight by the author. But it is helpful to highlight this point, since it is certainly a live mistake I've seen in real code before. It's an interesting test of how rich one's cost model for running code is.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting I try out.

Linking me to the bun runtime or the Svelte documentation and saying "here's a boilerplate for you" is not helpful when you're looking for something that you can just run `pnpm i` and start writing business logic, which is what all boilerplates purport to be at the end of the day.
Not OP but they are almost certainly referring to the BIOS POST self-health and status messages.
A mains connected circuit designed to minimum costs could have all sorts of corner cuts: bad capacitors, no overvoltage protection, no back EMF from load protection, bad isolation to the driving circuit, etc, so that it could work flawlessly for decades, but also stop working after a while because of a spark that welded the contacts together, or mains voltage to enter the driving circuit because of moisture and insufficient creepage between high and low voltage tracks, etc. I use a lot of cheap Chinese products in non critical contexts, but I'd avoid them with mains voltage or in any safety critical use.
I don't think you'd need a special desk. There are office chairs that supposedly cater for a variety of positions such as squatting and lotus.
There were many more, but these were all dang could find after pg threw them in the river.
I'm really impressed to see the home server power consumption in the article. I always sort of expect these things to end with, "it turns out I could save even more power by not having a home server".
> I though being able to read the news of the enemy was testimony to the moral high ground of a "modern free and democratic society".

Sure, if you believe your own (or more accurately: most liberal democracies') propaganda. But it really depends on how invested that enemy is in convincing your citizens to side with it. It turns out that "freedom of speech" ultimately is a losing strategy against an enemy that's excellent at abusing speech (which is another way of saying they have a good understanding of psychology, rhetorics and deception).

The successful way to engage with propaganda is not to let it sit alongside reality[0] but to contextualize it with reality. A widely known example in US news coverage for the former is showing "both sides of the debate" on issues like global warming or evolution: merely giving it an equal weight gives it equal presence in public perception and legitimizes it. Contextualizing means being explicit about which side you agree with and explaining why the given argument by the other side is wrong.

Of course the problem with effective propaganda is that it's not simply misinformation which can be contrasted and dissected easily but disinformation that not only shields itself against analysis but actively disrupts any attempt at analysis. Russian propaganda legitimizing the invasion of Ukraine for example (and this isn't new, this is literally a continuation of Soviet Union psychological warfare) used multiple mutually contradictory conflicting narratives which effectively drown out any other narrative by not only giving a manufactured alternative equal weight but giving equal weight to multiple alternatives, like a DDoS attack on information.

[0]: Of course we can debate what "reality" means but no matter the overarching narrative or the individual justifications, it's nearly impossible to avoid agreeing on things like "Russia sent ground troops in the direction of Kyiv within Ukranian borders" even if you might have different explanations of why that happened or what the intention behind that was or whether it constitutes a military attack.

Of course the irony is that in this case the side most heavily relying on disinformation seems to be Israel given its various contradictory official claims on social media. But arguably their application of it is nowhere near as effective. It's also worth mentioning that not only did the EU kick out Russian state-owned media but Russian television is also heavily censored and legal access to foreign news sources very limited. So the answer to "Who's engaging in censorship?" in this case seems to be "Everyone, to varying degrees". That implies this has never been a meaningful moral distinction, no matter what bleeding heart liberals and free speech libertarians may claim.
https://archive.ph/bMZKP
> Unfortunately people perform better when they have nicotine.

This is the first time I've ever heard someone bring this argument. Ignoring the health risks involved with nicotine, the 'performance boost' is negligible. It's less than caffeine.

> but we are way too quick to dismiss the possibility that nicotine itself may have been a civilization booster.

There are nicotine gums and patches available, and a very good reason you don't see people who don't smoke using them, because the idea of using nicotine as a performance enhancer is crazy.

A silly question, but why not just distribute cocaine or Adderall without prescription if you're concerned about performance? Where do you draw the line ?
It is. Commenters are not reading the article.
There are often times when you have n possible providers of service y, each with strengths and weaknesses. If you have some ultimate truth signal (like follow on costs which are linked to quality, which was what I used) then you can model the providers as bandits and use something like UCB1 to choose which to use. If you then apply this to every individual customer what you end up doing is learning the optimal vendor for each customer which gives you a higher efficiency than had you picked just one 'best all around' vendor for all customers. So the pattern here is: If you have n_service_providers and n_customers and a value signal to optimize then maybe MAB is the place to go for some possible quick gains. Of course if you have a huge state space to explore instead of just n_service_providers, for instance you want to model combinations of choices, using something like a NN to learn the state space value function is also a great way to go.
I don't know Indeed's demographic but I also got the impression that there is not much cross over between high-paying Software/IT roles and companies that are posting on Indeed.
The economics of batteries are a function of cycle limits (none in this case, probably) and how much energy you can store and discharge over time and the price difference between charging and discharging. All that minus the upfront installation cost.

The article says this thing should last at least fifty years. There's no good reason it couldn't last longer as it shouldn't really degrade over time. If you assume daily charge/discharge cycles, that would be about 18250K cycles over 50 years. Times 4GWh is about 73TWh of energy sold to the grid at, hopefully, some profit. Of course that all depends on demand, utilization, and whether there are any cheaper ways to store energy. It's probably going to end up some percentage of that. But best case that's energy you buy cheap and sell at a higher price. Even a few cents difference starts adding up to billions pretty quickly. And that's before you consider the alternatives (buying energy on the open market from another provider, investing in more energy generation, etc.).

The prices you cite are just the purchase price. And of course lithium batteries don't last forever. So you'd be writing them off at some point. But in fairness, there are some battery chemistries that are getting quite good cycle times. So, the comparison might become a bit more fair over time.
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It's about probabilities and risks shifting.

My understanding after selling software to enterprise is that

1. they are risk averse, they prefer a solution that will improve by 0.1% the [whatever metrics they care about] with 0% chance of failure than one with over 9000% improvement and a 1% chance of failure.

2. To be sure of 1) they want a) a track record of success (the famous, "what are your other enterprise client") b) they have a loooong selling process where you will need to talk to their security team, their legal team, their change management team etc.

3. They have complex rules inherited from dozen of years of internal politics, merge and acquisition, half-done transition and they are not ready to change for you. (because the last time they did, it ended badly)

4. For the same reason they have a complex ecosystem of software that has not been made to intercommunicate with others, so your software will need to do excel export, talk to SFTP, talk to SOAP services, talk to system in COBOL where you must be sre that the field X can not exceed 5 digits in decimal representation.

5. They want to be sure you will still be alive in 5 years

This being said , it means the vital part to be a enterprise software company is

1. you need a team that knows how to navigate their process, and not only your sales teams, you need technical guys , product guys that knows how to talk to a security team, the enteprise IT team

2. you need a technical team that will not laugh or flee when you will tell them to create a SOAP connector

3. you need to have more than 2 years of runaway (otherwise you will not having finished half of the sales process )

4. you need a final software that does what they pay you for (in case of a payroll software: one that is able to generate a correct payslip ) with 0 risk of risks for them (you can have bugs , if you have a good insurance :) )

these things exists independently of the UX for the final user.

One can even say it makes it harder, because making things simple is harder for hard things, and sorry but if you tell me the project is going to be 2 month longer because we will tweak the UX with end users , in addition to all the meetings are done, I will remove this step.

so it means you can't have an enterprise with good UX without the proverbial soap connector, but the opposite can exists, which means at the end pure math dictate that you will see a lot of enteprise software with poor UX.
Israel has a history of intentionally targeting journalists (such as the American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli snipers, despite being very clearly identified as a journalist).

It's also the case that more generally, Israel's practice of dropping 2000-pound bombs on civilian areas is a war crime. Any targeting of civilian areas has to weigh the military gain against the damage to civilians, and Israel is not doing that. It has emerged that Israel is knowingly targeting buildings where it knows hundreds of civilians will die, just to kill one individual who is suspected of being associated in some way with Hamas. Israel specifically targets suspected Hamas associates when they're at home. These people are identified based on a pattern of behavior and things like cell-phone data, without Israel even knowing whether they really are combatants.[0] In this conflict, Israel has completely taken the gloves off and quite obviously does not care about civilian casualties.

0. https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...
Because with the tanks are not infinite size. That means as you release pressure the differential between the two tanks equalizes in the middle. Mean while in the current system the low pressure vessel is effectively infinite and so you have more usable volume to work with. Plus of course you can use both vessels to store energy instead of one.
Nice Mike Judge ref there...

Agreed about being faster than a lot of other media - at least in terms of density. Also, the tired eyes thing can be a bonus too. For years I had trouble falling asleep at night and I'd stay up later because I didn't like going to bed until I knew I would conk out immediately.

Now I get in bed and read about a half hour or hour before I want to be asleep. It gives me something to focus on while relaxing and when my eyes get too tired or my mind starts to wander, I know it's time to sleep.
DEI is applied broadly, for example here's a list of demographics targeted for DEI from one of Biden's executive orders [1]:

The initiative will advance opportunity for communities that have historically faced employment discrimination and professional barriers, including: people of color; women; first-generation professionals and immigrants; individuals with disabilities; LGBTQ+ individuals; Americans who live in rural areas; older Americans who face age discrimination when seeking employment; parents and caregivers who face employment barriers; people of faith who require religious accommodations at work; individuals who were formerly incarcerated; and veterans and military spouses.

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
But if you truly believe that putin is losing due to propaganda, you'll go and fight a war you believe you'll win... and then die, because the media lied to you. How is this good for you?

I mean sure... you, as an outside observer want more "other" people to die for a cause you believe in, but for an individual it's better to know the truth and decide according to that, than to be mislead by lies and propaganda.
I remember an android app years ago that would simply use the proximity sensor to count push-ups. I think you could put it on your abdomen and count sit ups too using the accelerometer/gyroscope.
Freedom of speech is a grey area, though.

How long has it been since all had equal access to speech? The mostly-literate + printing press era?

Do we still have free speech if I can turn an algorithmic knob that causes 10% fewer people to see your opinion than those arguing against you?
> I was dumb and was trying to help people, not build a 'knowledge base'.

It is about helping people - but helping multiple people for the same effort it takes to help one person.

As we descend further into "Need help? Just ask on our Discord!" hell - it's a lesson that I wish resonated with more people.
Someone is getting poor quarterly review results, and is looking to see how to replace them once the quarter is up; rinse and repeat
https://archive.is/LRZAF
The stream reader userspace libraries are very well optimized for handling that kind of "dumb" usage that should obviously create problems. (That's one of the reasons Linux expects you to use glibc instead of making a syscall directly.)

But I imagine the time reading ones aren't as much optimized. People normally do not call them all the time.
"The problem is that radio stations typically don't have anyone in the booth most of the time, if ever:"

Agreed, it's a serious issue, and the first thing one notices about prerecorded and netwoked programs is the lack of spontaneity and liveliness of the content (personally I don't like stations that are run like this).

This, of course, is a regulatory matter. There's no reason why programs cannot be interrupted by an actual human in such emergencies, even if not a professional announcer, an emergency worker or police perhaps.
> Plans include a gradual, piecewise introduction of the memory-safe Rust programming language

Oh cool, I had "rewrite in Rust" on my bingo card.

Anyway this doesn't seem to be much more than a %s/nix/lix/g so far. I'm all for the right to rage-fork something, but you should be clear that it's not a new project.

https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/commits/branch/main

You can see one of their most recent contributors is Eelco Dolstra.
Agreed. Air quality has improved so much since then too.